RaveLiberA gorgeous book and a weird book, and as you read it, you don’t know why she decided to write about this seemingly trivial moment growing up, or that couple rather than this other couple who were friends of her parents and fellow Czech escapees from Hitler. You don’t care why ... There are dozens of passages I could have picked out that are as moving or sharp or funny or reflective of the world Malcolm grew up in as these I’ve gathered. Malcolm writes in two time frames, lending the book its coherence and intimacy.
